Example sentences of "[v-ing] [been] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when the islanders voted to join Canada rather than resume the status of ’ responsible government ’ after having been run for 15 years by a commission from the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Thoza Khonje , Malawi : released February 1991 , having been detained for two years after making remarks which were interpreted as critical of the Life President . |
| 3 | Invalided from the RAF in 1940 , having been rejected for flying training , he spent a frustrating war as a special constable . |
| 4 | Here , and again in London as resident scenic artist for the Grand Opera Syndicate at Covent Garden , he became frustrated by the conservatism of management with regard to production and scenery , and returned to America after the outbreak of war in 1914 , having been rejected for military service because of deafness . |
| 5 | Nimbus was foaled there in 1946 , and , having been sold for 5,000 guineas at the yearling sales , won the 1949 Two Thousand Guineas and Derby . |
| 6 | It was the third time Hillman has been sent off in his career and having been suspended for 20 weeks for his last offence , can expect a lengthy suspension for his latest misdemeanour . |
| 7 | If its august it must be Fairport … for these fifty Americans … some of whom having been coming for ten years … their annual pilgrimage to Oxfordshire for the Fairport Convention festival starts with a meeting with the folk rock band in a local pub . |
| 8 | His main argument was that Gothic , having been used for nineteenth-century churches , should now be considered as the basis of all building types , particularly domestic , although commercial and public buildings were considered . |
| 9 | John was brought to the surface at 3 a.m. on 31st October , having been entombed for 2 hours short of 23 days . |